"New-Metal" band offers nothing "new". Down the sun, and keep it down if you can. Downthesun, that's one word, all lower case, is Des Moines, Iowa's latest addition to the Slipknot wannabe club. With their not-so-original brand of thrash metal and vocal-shredding lyrics, the band members set out to prove just how fucked up growing up in the Midwest can make someone.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Gary Primich lives the blues, that's why he's so good at it. Primich spends upwards 200 nights a year touring and playing in venues all across the country. His renaissance-like abilities as a singer/songwriter/harmonica player, separates him from many other one-trick pony style blues artists.
For people who are looking for a change from the norm of Friday night keg cups and crowded houses with loud, pre-recorded music, consider the "Dark Side of the X" variety Show. Modeled after famous variety shows such as the mainstream "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" and local phenomenon Tricklock Theatre Company's "Reptilian Lounge," "Dark Side of the X" allows people to go as wild as they want in the basement of Popejoy Hall.
by Kenn Rodriguez Daily Lobo If you remember "The Kids in the Hall," you know the name Dave Foley. Of the five Kids, Foley was the short one. The one who could look child-like and devilish at the same time. The one - dare I say - who looked great in a dress.
In a world of bubble-gum pop music, 1208 models itself after bands like Skrew 32 and Pennywise. It is beef stroganoff, which is conceivably the farthest existing thing from bubble-gum. How does this meat and potatoes punk band exist in the chewy, pink soundscape that is modern-day punk? And what really is the difference? Epitaph Records owner and founder Brett Gurewitz helped start one of the most catalytic punk bands of all time.
David W. Jacobsen doesn't get any but you sure do, don't you. This is what this up and coming singer/songwriter's latest album The Chasm, has to offer. Really, this CD is intended to offer more than that, like some kind of humor toward bad relationships - but just doesn't really get that far.
by Alex Tarrand Daily Lobo Hey there, run out of pretty people to fill your post-wakeup, pre-class, pantless part of your day? I know I have - at least since MTV's "Roadrulers" won their prize and left our lives until next year's reunion special. But thankfully that which created the sickness also makes quick with the cure.
Percie and Maria Yu lived in Spain for five years and when they came to New Mexico, they brought their love of Spanish culture with them. Since then, their restaurant CafÇ Broadway has been a favorite of those wishing to experience Spanish culture. Percie and Marie always wanted their restaurant to be a venue for great dance, music and art.
by Marisa Demarco Daily Lobo Everyone wants to be Radiohead. Everyone wants to be the innovative band that could. It's where whining suburban white-boy rock is going - the last valid route for a dying breed of skinny, shaggy-haired, acoustic guitar wielding youth.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Occasionally a movie comes along that makes you wonder who is in charge in Hollywood. "Ragdoll," which came out in 1999, proves there is a Hollywood Illuminati and they hold us, the little people, in very low regard.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Shady Back alleys of the Internet found by entering Two or More Unrelated Words into Google. Entry: "Spam Haiku." If Al Gore really invented the Internet, one would be forced to assume that he is a sex-starved porn-addict and someone who entertains an unhealthy fixation on SPAM.
"A robin redbreast in a cage/Puts all heaven in a rage." And thus starts the third chapter of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, which is actually the first chapter, which happens a little after the initial chapter that occurs just before the movie even takes place.
Like a Singapore Sling in a smoky Las Vegas lounge, Jurassic 5's Power in Numbers, goes down easy. Seeing their names in the liner notes is like looking at a roster of superheroes on a crime-fighting team in a comic book. Emcees Chali 2na, Zaakir (Soup), Akil and Marc 7 and DJs Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark are recognizably vintage hip-hop all-stars.
by Carilyn Rome Daily Lobo For those of you who felt a little woozy after leaving "Trainspotting," the Vortex Theatre's last production, "Spike Heels" might just be your Pepto Bismol. A quick-witted, well-acted and thoroughly funny play, "Spike Heels" touches on a lot of gender issues in a very real way - and not a toilet bowl in sight.
College is supposed to be a time of learning, a time of exploration and, according to Hollywood a time with lots of indiscriminate sex. A group of Yale University students took that idea to a new level by starting the Porn 'n Chicken Club, a secret society that gathered once a week to watch pornography and eat Popeye's fried chicken.
Hey you engineering majors, where's your robot band? JBOT has his: Captured by Robots. JBOT isn't really his name. His name is Jay Vance. But in response to such hard-hitting questions from the Daily Lobo such as "What is your name?" he squirmed and lied.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo What is it about Carlos Santana that draws thousands of people to his shows year after year? What separates him from other artists, Latin and otherwise, that grants him the financial and artistic success that has lasted more than 30 years? For example, why do thousands pack the Journal Pavilion for Santana, whereas Ozomatli, his opening act, barely fills smaller venues such as the Sunshine Theatre? These were the questions flooding my head as I was stuck in traffic on the way to the Santana/Ozomatli show on Tuesday night at the Journal Pavilion.
by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo At the UNM Poets and Writers Reading Series last Thursday, faculty member and poet Diane Thiel remarked that Charles Bukowski isn't exactly a bedside read. Well, the same goes for Don McIver. McIver has two chapbooks, covering a range of subjects from the political to the personal to the letter to a prostitute who works Central west of University.
by Margarita Ortega y G¢mez Daily Lobo Glam, jam, thank you ma'am! - October is National Coming Out Month. Just in time, a newly-formed production company, Sinatra-DeVine, is kicking it off with drag revue appropriately called "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: A Night of a Thousand Stars" with a knockout, all-star cast.
By Rita E. Stange Daily Lobo Wipe up those tears shed for the closing of Bow Wow Records, the University area now has a new addition to the music scene. Inner City Records at 1417 Central NE, next to Route 66 Diner, specializes in catering to the needs of disc jockeys.
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